hdraw. It has never been able to go further than
Dixmude.

More to the south, from Dixmude to the north of Ypres, a like
situation.

The Germans, on Nov. 12, had crossed the river at two points, were
pushed back to the other bank, thus giving Gen. Humbert the command of
the bridges.

East of Ypres, Gens. Dubois, Balfourrier, and Douglas Haig had not
yielded an inch of ground.

Further south the German attack, aiming at our lines of communication,
had been particularly violent, but the English and the French regained
all the ground that had been momentarily lost and made it impregnable.

During the second half of November the shattered German attacks
weakened. The infantry engaged us less frequently and the artillery
showed less activity.

The enemy, in the battle of Ypres alone, had lost at least 120,000
men.

Never had such a thoroughly prepared and spirited offensive undergone
such a complete failure.

A WAR OF SIEGE.

_Meanwhile, from the banks of the Lys to the ridges of the Vosges a
war of siege was ceaselessly raging. The Bulletin des Armees says:_

It is hardly necessary to emphasize the meritorious behavior of our
troops in waging this war inch by inch, never yielding, progressing
often in spite of the added difficulty of transporting important
French and English contingents to the north.

In close conjunction with the armies of the north the armies of Gen.
Maudhuy and Gen. de Castelnau held without flinching in the slightest
the line between the Lys and Noyon, from the middle of October till
the end of November.

Their progress has been continuous since the end of October; our
positions in Arras and La Bassee have been strengthened,
Quesnoy-en-Santerre has been captured, and in all the encounters with
the enemy our artillery and infantry have constantly made gains.

Between the Oise and the Argonne the armies of Maunoury, d'Esperay,
and Langle de Cary were confronted with very strong positions, viz.,
the heights of the Aisne, of Berru, Nogent-l'Abbesse, Moronvilliers,
and the wooded hills of Western Argonne.

In September they had to resist a very violent general attack. This
attack was a failure, especially east of Rheims, (Sept. 26.)

The Emperor had witnessed this check of his troops just as a week
later he was to witness the failure at Ypres.

Our armies, that is to say, Sarrail's and Dubail's, fulfilled with
method and success the task intrusted to them, viz., to protect our
right